Plane bombing mastermind unmasked as Egyptian cleric

The suspected mastermind behind the downing of a Russian passenger jet near Sharm el-Sheikh has been unmasked, according to The Sunday Times.

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British intelligence chiefs believe that the plane, which crashed last weekend over Egypt’s Sinai killing 224 people, was brought down by a bomb planted by an offshoot of ISIS in the Sinai peninsula, The Sunday Times reports.

The group’s frontman, Abu Osama al-Masri, an Egyptian cleric, brokered a pact with ISIS last year in Syria.